ACT IIWhen Victory and Mikelos emerged from their room past noon the next day, the handmaids exclaimed over Mikelos’ healed hand and Zhinu favored them with a wicked grin. Mikelos blushed, but Victory didn’t let the young woman get to her.
After they joined the ladies for a light lunch, Mikelos pecked Victory on the cheek and said, “I should go apologize to Guy.”
“I think you should apologize to Tan and Reynolds, but that’s just me.” Victory had curled next to the unlit fireplace with her Qin textbook once more while Zhinu, An, and Yi-Ting embroidered on the sunlit patio outside the suite. One of the daytime guards was with them, and Victory was content to be in earshot.
“They will be my next stop, I promise.” She and Mikelos exchanged a deeper kiss, then he crossed to the main door of
